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OK, alors au lieu de balancer des doubles posts sur les topics existants, j'annonce que tout comme les rubriques Personnages, les rubriques Lieux de Code Lyoko et Code Lyoko Évolution sont entièrement traduites du côté français ! \o/
Conséquemment, la rubrique Évolution est terminée. Et la rubrique Code Lyoko le sera bientôt, une fois quelques dernières pages éliminées…
C'est tout simplement impressionnant.
The Network (Code Lyoko)
Webmaster technique :
L'encadré « Les mondes virtuels dans le Réseau » est absent dans la version anglaise (sur la page, dans le sommaire…les images aussi).
Shaka
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⋅ Pas de majuscule après les deux points “:”
⋅ “nous développeront cela” > développerons
⋅ “La silhouette du Réseau est donc placée au premier plan dans l'égide des nouveautés de la saison 4” > Je crois qu'“égide” ne veut rien dire dans ce contexte.
⋅ “on peut tomber sur des passerelles (hubbs) qui vous propulse en hyper vitesse” > propulsent + hyper-vitesse (?)
⋅ “Le Réseau ne présentait pas un intérêt capital pour la série, tant que XANA y était prisonnier.” > tant que XANA était prisonnier du Supercalculateur.
⋅ “ils (…) présentent les mauvais desseins que cela cache” > pressentent
⋅ “Lyoko et les Réplikas sont des « bulles virtuels » des îles immergées” > virtuelles + virgule
⋅ “représente les données qui transitent dans le Réseau, tel qu'on en a émis l'hypothèse” > Incorrect, je crois : “ainsi qu'on en a émis l'hypothèse” / “comme on en a émis l'hypothèse”
⋅ “Ca arrive, Lyoko change en permanence de point d'accès” > Ça
⋅ “Sur Lyoko, aucun des monstres volants ou terrestres n'est sensé résister à la mer numérique” > censé
Translator's Notes
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⋅ “ réseaunautes” > “Netxplorers” : “réseaunautes” is portmanteau word that blends “réseau” (Network) and “astronaute” But I think that “Netwonaut” sounds terrible, and though I'm unable to pronounce “Netxplorers” it looks to me like a better alternative. Should no word efficiently translate the pun, I suggest Netwarriors.
⋅ “on peut tomber sur des passerelles (hubbs) qui vous propulse en hyper vitesse” > “hyper vitesse” simply refers to a high speed, but I think the word “hyper” might be employed on purpose, as a reference to a sci-fi commonplace: hyperspace. Just in case, I added a more explicit and removable reference to hyperspace in the translation.
⋅ “ there is no clear reading to clarify precisely which elements of the real world the writers intended the things we see to correspond” > I'm pretty sure it's grammatically correct though
⋅ “pr[ess]entent les mauvais desseins que cela cache” > “suspect that it is the apparent part of the iceberg of XANA's evil plans” The translation is not very true to the original text. I added this iceberg metaphor out of thin air and inspiration (this goes out to Icer )
⋅ “le Réseau ne sera plus alors qu'un lieu de passage” > I translated “lieu de passage” “port of call”, but I think it might not be exactly the right term since you are supposed to stop at a port of call, and the Network is more like a highway you need to use…I'll let you deal better with that one.
⋅ “ils sont creux, permettant la virtualisation en leur sein.” > “they are hollow, which allows virtualized entities to move inside without protection” : added details (about protections)
⋅ “une grosse bouboule brillante” > “bouboule” means “boule” in a quite ridiculous/funny/playful way. It expresses something like a child's or a pet's fascination. Kinda cute.
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Representation of the Network in the series
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The World Network appears pretty early in the series. Jeremy already mentions it in episode 23 “Rock Bottom?”. But we will come back to it later.
As soon as in episode 5 “Big Bug”, we can already see a representation of what is likely countless connections throughout the world. However, in the end, this image remains the only of its kind in the series (see below).
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The second season remains silent on that topic: it is only in the third season that the Network returns center-stage in a more serious fashion, when we learn that XANA dwells somewhere in the World Network since it left the Supercomputer. Jeremy manages to localize it as soon as episode 53 “Straight to the Heart”; our heroes, however, are completely tied up defending Lyoko, their only access to the Network, and they are unable to explore this vast universe before XANA manages to destroy Hopper's virtual world.
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It is only after they rebuilt Lyoko and developped the Skidbladnir our Lyokowarriors turn into Netxplorers. So, in spite of the shy appearances of the concept at the beginning of the series, the shadow of the Network ends up being at the forefront amongst the innovations of Code Lyoko's fourth season.
Even for us, in the real world, the concept of the Network sounds a little fuzzy.
Ms Decroisette, the writing director of seasons 1, 2 & 3 of the series, defined it as “[the web! The set of all the connexions between all the computers in the world]” during an interview that was made before season 4. Fine, but how would those connexions be represented? How would XANA's actions mark this environment? Before season 4 went out, those questions used to cause unrest for many people.
She also said that our very familiar digital sea is actually an extension of the world network we are pretty familiar with. Turns out that it was one of the main clues.
Indeed, this is the way the writers represented the Network, as a vast Ocean. When our heroes leave Lyoko, they enter an immeasurable stretch of a watery matter, without floor nor surface. It is easy to loose one's way there, so anyone who ventures there needs a radar. This aqueous place contains floating virtual worlds suck as Lyoko and the Replikas, as well as enigmatic big red blocks, decorated with all sorts of white “tags” When you travel there, you might come across gateways called “Hubbs” that transport you a distant point of the Network at a high speed, in a hyperspace fashion. Our heroes sometimes use it to visit remote Replikas.
The color of this watery vastness is a clear, peaceful blue that turns red when XANA is around.
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Any consideration other than merely descriptive is quite hazardous. As we said above, the Network is a concept, and there is no clear reading to clarify precisely which elements of the real world the writers intended the things we see to correspond. Those are the most common interpretations:
The big sets of solid blocs are data banks.
The water that flows between those banks and creates currents may represent two things: either the huge amount of data that circulates through the Network, either electricity itself (it is often said that XANA's attacks travel through electrical networks). Unfortunately, those are but suppositions amongst thousand possibilities.
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The Network's stakes
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The Network was not of a capital interest in the series as long as XANA was prisoner of the Supercomputer. XANA could only act using Lyoko, and our heroes could block its actions from within this world. There is no need to venture into that dangerous place. But from the moment XANA steals the keys of Lyoko and gets out of this small world in which it is vulnerable, the action does not revolve around the Supercomputer alone anymore.
First, our heroes understand that they need to go in the Network to continue the fight against XANA, that flew there (episode 52 “Reminiscence”).
Then, because of a message he sends them, they find out that Franz Hopper is still alive, hidden somewhere in the Network, but very weakened (episode 57 “Aelita” & 65 “Final Round”).
Afterwards, our heroes save Aelita from William's clutches and learn that he can dive into the Digital Sea to serve XANA (Episode 66 “William Returns”).
At last, when our heroes lose their way in the Network, they discover a replica of Lyoko, created by XANA, and suspect that it is the apparent part of the iceberg of XANA's evil plans.
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So it is with a lot of hope that our heroes enter the Network and explore its aqueous space: they aim at bringing back Hopper (see image above) and William (Episode 75 “Hot Shower”), destroying the Replikas, hunting down XANA…
Unfortunately, excepted for a few attempts, everything quickly ends with the Replika war and the appearance of the Translation procedure (see the page of the story of season 4 for more details).
Thus – and it is a shame – the Network ends up as a mere port of call, where brief fights occasionally occur (see below).
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Even though the Universe of the Network looks impressive when we discover it, it is somewhat sad that it only had a quite secondary role. What is more, the fights that took place there were not that suspenseful, because our heroes could not lose: indeed, if one of our heroes was hit, he would inevitably die (which is, as one might suspect, strictly impossible in the bright wonderful world of cartoons =D).
The Virtual Worlds have their own page, that you can read there.
Unlike the rest of we see in the Network, those have a peculiar aspect and, especially, they are hollow, which allows virtualized entities to move inside without protection.
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Let us focus on two aspects of those worlds:
– The bark. Certainly incredibly solid and resistant, it isolates the inside of the virtual world from the rest of the Network. Which is why Lyoko and the Replikas can be considered as “digital bubbles”, islands submersed in the Network without being flooded by its waters. Physically, a huge pressure must push on the walls of those worlds, but this bark does not collapse, unless the virtual world itself is destroyed.
– The airlock. It is the entrance and the exit of the world. Without those, the virtual worlds would be isolated, cut away from the world Network, and it would be impossible for them to interact with Internet or with the Earth.
The function of the airlock is probably to filter what is going in and out. If the water represents the data that flows through the Network, according to our previous hypothesis, then the airlock's role is to sort inputs and outputs and prevent the Networks' mob from overflowing inside the virtual world. It is likely why when the Lyokowarriors need to go on a little trip out of Lyoko, Jeremy has to be there to allow his huge program, the Skidbladnir, to leave, and that he has to force its way inside XANA's Replikas.
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About the localization of those worlds in the Network, let us go back to episode 23 “Rock Bottom?”:
While Jeremy, after a hard time trying to contact Aelita, finally manages to do so, he says those enigmatic words:
“It's such a tough time contact Lyoko…”
“That's the fifth time I launched the localization program. The Network must really be blocked! I can't get it to contact Lyoko.”
And Aelita answers:
“That's nothing new. Lyoko is constantly changing its access points on the Network.”
When our heroes discover Lyoko, we learn that it contains powerful streams. So, since Lyoko is a bubble immersed in the Network, we can think that it is slowly pushed by those currents and that it thus drifts through the Digital Ocean. Therefore, as long as you do not use the factory's terminal, which is physically and constantly linked to Lyoko, it is necessary to first localize Lyoko before you establish a connexion.
However, in the same episode, Ulrich tells to our anxious Einstein that if she has got a problem, Aelita should be able to contact them nevertheless. We can think that since she dwells in Lyoko, wherever the virtual world is located, the captive Aelita from season 1 was able to call anyone in the world. The distress signal would thus enable the computer that receives it to immediately localize Lyoko.
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The same goes for Replikas. The operator has to localize it before going there, and Jeremy created a very powerful scanner for that purpose. Eventhough this program is very powerful, it sometimes takes several weeks for our heroes to find a Replika. The fact that they came across it by chance in episode 71 “Maiden Voyage” is an achievement in itself.
In the Network...
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What can be found in the Network, that is not inherently part of the Network?
Like the Digital Sea, the Network is a very dense mass of data. Therefore, one can easily get crushed and scattered all over the place, like what happened to Yumi in episode 6 “Cruel Dilemma”. So, an incredible resistance is required to travel in the Network. The virtual worlds, as it was said above, are equipped with an incredible bark.
XANA is certainly the first that reached the Network.
As an extremely powerful program, not only was it able to enter it, it also spread through it and used the Network as a highway to all the Supercomputers in the world that it infected in order to create the Replikas.
XANA's appearance is a point that was never elucidated, so the form under which it spread in the Digital Ocean is unknown.
Franz Hopper also hid there when Lyoko was destroyed.
For the reasons we explained above, traveling in the Network is incredibly complex and dangerous. The fact that Franz was able to survive there may be one of the greatest proofs of how powerful he was. The Network provides him with a perfect hideout to get away from his ennemies. One can wonder, however, if he had the same aspect he had in Lyoko, that is: a big bright ball.
XANA's monsters…
You can find more information about them in the “Monsters” section.
Their presence remains quite mysterious. On Lyoko, be it flying or terrestrial, no monster is supposed to resist the Digital Sea and its virtual pressure. Therefore, even the intimidating Megatanks and their invincible shell explode when they fall.
XANA, however, did quite an incredible achievement, since it managed to populate the world Network with submarine monsters: Sharks, Kongres and the Kalamar. Most probably, XANA directly provides them with energy and helps them not to dissolve in the same fashion Franz Hopper was able to protect Aelita when she was thrown in the Digital Sea (Episode 82 “Distant Memory”).
The Skidbladnir.
Since they are not as skilled as XANA or Hopper, our favorite students had to develop a powerful program that would allow them to go out of Lyoko. That is the role of the submarine ship, the Skidbladnir.
Equipped with powerful shields, it can resist the submarine pressure, and its powerful reactors allow it to move against the digital tide if necessary.
Even so, the trips in the Skidbladnir are most risky. Any bug of the program (shields, localization radar, reactors) could entail the death of the whole group. XANA uses this security breach when it hacks into the Skid by xanfying Sissi and Herbs and placing them in charge, in front of Jeremy's computer (Episode 88 “Cousins Once Removed”). As for Yumi, she was almost done by a bug of her Navskid in episode 77 “Lost At Sea”, but her friends manage to save her in time.
And at last, the Rorkal.
To counter the Skid and its daunting, fast Navskids, XANA created a dark copy of those for William: the Rorkal.
Its description is similar to the Skid's. However, it is less dangerous for William to venture into the depths of the Network, since even if his ship is destroyed, XANA can prevent him from drowning in the currents of the Network.
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Eventhough XANA and Hopper do not appear directly on screen, the other elements who travel through the Network engage a bitter battle whenever they come across each other, with torpedoes or lasers shots flying in every direction.
To conclude, let us note that the Network is, like Lyoko, a completely digital world, and that digital events can happen there, or that they can be triggered.
And of course, a quick one using lots of copy & paste (italic)…
The Network (Evolution)
Shaka
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Franchement, t'es pas obligé de corriger. C'est évolution, après tout…
Cf. la page CL, un certain nombre de remarques s'applique également.
Le deuxième encadré n'est pas très net sur l'emplacement des mondes virtuels dans le Réseau. Il affirme que leur emplacement est fixe, mais la fin de l'encadré rappelle que les mondes virtuels dérivent dans le Réseau avec cette histoire de “signal perdu”.
⋅ Pas de majuscule après les deux points “:” (deux fois dans le premier encadré)
⋅ Par souci de cohérence avec le reste du site (page saison 4, page Lieux Code Lyoko), remplacer “hub” par “hubbs” avec les deux b.
⋅ “ le Réseau à une important un peu moindre dans Evolution” > importance
⋅ “C'est pour cela que Lyoko et les Réplikas sont des « bulles virtuels »” > copier-coller spotted (+ bulles virtuelles…mais ça, je l'ai déjà dit sur l'autre page.)
⋅ “XANA emploie cette faille en piégeant piratant le Skid à deux reprises.” > It's a trap !
⋅ Dans le dernier encadré, l'épisode #17 Rendez-vous apparaît. Je crois qu'il s'agit d'Un Avenir Professionnel Assuré, et non pas de #11 Rendez-vous
⋅ “Il s'agit du seul avatar virtuel humanoïde dans ce cas.” > Faux. Pour ce qu'on en sait, William survivait tout aussi bien dans la Mer Numérique (le Rorkal ne servant qu' à combattre)
⋅ “Les héros ont du le détaché de ses plots” > dû + détacher
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Representation of the Network in the series
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When they turn back on the Supercomputer, our heroes are already pretty familiar with the Worldwide Network. They had already extensively explored it during their previous adventures. However, the ship that enabled them to explore it, the Skidbladnir, had been destroyed. So Jeremy and Aelita have to reprogram it as a matter of emergency, which is soon done (episode 02 “Cortex”).
Even for us, in the real world, the concept of the Network sounds a little fuzzy.
Ms Decroisette, the writing director of seasons 1, 2 & 3 of the series, defined it as “[the web! The set of all the connexions between all the computers in the world]” during an interview that was made before season 4.
Fine, but how would the set of all the connexions between all the computers in the world be represented?
The writers represented the Network as a vast Ocean. When our heroes leave Lyoko, they enter an immeasurable stretch of a watery matter, without floor nor surface. It is easy to loose one's way there, so anyone who ventures there needs a radar. This aqueous place contains floating virtual worlds suck as Lyoko and the Cortex, as well as enigmatic big red blocks, decorated with all sorts of white “tags” When you travel there, you might come across gateways called “Hubbs” that transport you a distant point of the Network at a high speed, in a hyperspace fashion. Our heroes use those to quickly go to the Cortex.
The color of this watery vastness is a clear, peaceful blue that turns red when XANA is around.
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Any consideration other than merely descriptive is quite hazardous. As we said above, the Network is a concept, and there is no clear reading to clarify precisely which elements of the real world the writers intended the things we see to correspond. Those are the most common interpretations:
The big sets of solid blocs are data banks.
The water that flows between those banks and creates currents may represent two things: either the huge amount of data that circulates through the Network, either electricity itself (it is often said that XANA's attacks travel through electrical networks). Unfortunately, those are but suppositions amongst thousand possibilities.
The Network's stakes
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Unlike the way it was during their previous adventures, when XANA controlled all of the Network…and when Franz Hopper was using it as a hideout, the Network holds a smaller role in Evolution. It is just the space that separates our heroes from the Cortex. In the end, it is a mere port of call, where brief fights occasionally occur (see below).
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Even though the Universe of the Network looks impressive when we discover it, it is somewhat sad that it only had a quite secondary role. What is more, the fights that took place there were not that suspenseful, because our heroes could not lose: indeed, if one of our heroes was hit, he would inevitably die (which is, as one might suspect, strictly impossible in the bright wonderful world of cartoons =D).
The virtual worlds in the Network
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The virtual worlds, be it Lyoko or the Cortex, are quite special elements. They represent a bunch of data organized in a definite structure, and located in a precise point of the Network. They have a peculiar aspect and, especially, they are hollow, which allows virtualized entities to move inside without protection.
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Let us focus on two aspects of those worlds:
– The bark. Certainly incredibly solid and resistant, it isolates the inside of the virtual world from the rest of the Network. Which is why Lyoko and the Cortex can be considered as “digital bubbles”, islands submersed in the Network without being flooded by its waters. Physically, a huge pressure must push on the walls of those worlds, but this bark does not collapse, unless the virtual world itself is destroyed.
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– The airlock. It is the entrance and the exit of the world. Without those, the virtual worlds would be isolated, cut away from the world Network, and it would be impossible for them to interact with Internet or with the Earth.
The function of the airlock is probably to filter what is going in and out. If the water represents the data that flows through the Network, according to our previous hypothesis, then the airlock's role is to sort inputs and outputs and prevent the Networks' mob from overflowing inside the virtual world. It is likely why when the Lyokowarriors need to go on a little trip out of Lyoko, Jeremy has to be there to allow his huge program, the Skidbladnir, to leave, and that he has to force its way inside the Cortex.
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As for the localization of the virtual worlds in the Network, it is hard to pinpoint them because the size of the Network is infinite. Our heroes know where Lyoko is located, because it is generated by their own Supercomputer. However, they were only able to discover the Cortex because of XANA. By acting from the Cortex, XANA created a trail that Jeremy was able to trace; however, the clue was fragile, and what is more, virtual worlds may be likely to drift from time to time, so that Jeremy was anxious that he might loose the signal.
To conclude, unless one operates from the very terminal that generates a given virtual world, it is necessary to pinpoint its precise position first to be able to access it.
In the Network...
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What can be found in the Network, that is not inherently part of the Network?
Like the Digital Sea, the Network is a very dense mass of data. Therefore, one can easily get crushed and scattered all over the place, hence our heroes' fear of falling in the Digital Sea (which is an extension of the Network inside a virtual world). So, an incredible resistance is required to travel in the Network. The virtual worlds, as it was said above, are equipped with an incredible bark.
XANA is certainly the first that reached the Network.
As an extremely powerful program, it managed to survive in that environment. Even though its essence is now imprisoned in the Cortex, it still finds some way to act in the Network, and even somehow cross it and activate the Towers of Lyoko, from the Cortex. Still, it lost some of its power and is now unable to create its own virtual worlds like it used to be. XANA's appearance is a point that was never elucidated, so the form under which it spread in the Digital Ocean is unknown.
XANA's monsters…
You can find more information about them in the “Monsters” section.
Their presence remains quite mysterious. On Lyoko, be it flying or terrestrial, no monster is supposed to resist the Digital Sea and its virtual pressure. Therefore, even the intimidating Megatanks and their invincible shell explode when they fall.
XANA, however, did quite an incredible achievement, since it managed to populate the world Network with submarine monsters: Sharks, Kongres and later, Mantas.
A Ninja...
Finding out that one of Tyron's Ninjas, hanging on to the Skid, was able to survive in the Network, was as much of a surprise as it had been for the monsters. It is the only virtual avatar we ever saw doing such a thing. The most likely explanation is that the forcefield around the Ninja, that made him invisible and undetectable, also protected him from the Digital Sea. Other theories are developed about this ninja on the page of Tyron's ninjas.
The Skidbladnir.
Since they are not as skilled as XANA or Hopper, our favorite students had to develop a powerful program that would allow them to go out of Lyoko. That is the role of the submarine ship, the Skidbladnir.
Equipped with powerful shields, it can resist the submarine pressure, and its powerful reactors allow it to move against the digital tide if necessary.
Even so, the trips in the Skidbladnir are most risky. Any bug of the program (shields, localization radar, reactors) could entail the death of the whole group. XANA uses this security breach twice to attack the Skid. First, it infected it with a virus in episode 13 “Friday the 13th”. Our heroes had to free it from its stowing and make it fly over Lyoko, to limit the damages. When they did this, they were taking a huge risk: the infected ship could lose its shield any time and fall right into the Digital Sea. XANA also trapped the submarine using the security system of a hubb in episode 23 “Jeremy's Blues”. This time, the ship was destroyed. Fortunately, Jeremy was able to devirtualized the crew just before it happened.
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Characters and monsters who travel through the Network engage a bitter battle whenever they come across each other, with torpedoes or lasers shots flying in every direction. Indeed, with its monsters, XANA intends to prevent our heroes from reaching the Cortex. To make it even more interesting, the destruction of the Skidbladnir in the Digital Sea would also entail the definitive virtualization of our heroes.
Appearances of the Network
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Episodes of appearance
We did not list the episodes in which the Network is simply crossed by our heroes without trouble.
#17 A Professional Career Guaranteed
#18 Tenacity
#22 Mutiny
#23 Jeremy's Blues
#25 Massacre
Important Events
In episode 17 « A Professional Carreer Guaranteed », our heroes make a dangerous trip through the Network, transporting Tyron's tracking device in order to get rid of it and throw it in the Cortex.
In episode 18 « Tenacity », for the first time, XANA sens Mantas underwaters, in the Digital Ocean.
In episode 23 « Jeremy's Blues », XANA grasps control of the security system of a hubb and manages to destroy the Skidbladnir.
Kadic (Code Lyoko)
Shaka
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“avant d'être débusquer par le principal utilisateur” > débusqués
“comme le lancers de disque (episode 63 “Triple saut”) et de javelots” > le lancer / les lancers + Triple salto arrière ?
“y organiser un sauvetage, celui de Mme Hertz dans l'episode 21 “Gravité 0”” > Comme disait Icer dans sa critique, il ne s'agissait pas vraiment d'un sauvetage puisque Mme Hertz était en fait la seule à être en sécurité [/troll]
“Quand ils ne sont pas sur Lyoko, nous héros sont très souvent enfermés dans ses salles où leurs cours leur sont dispensés par leur professeur !” > Outre l'Oscar de l'Originalité (du genre qui te fait penser : je ferais peut-être mieux de ne pas traduire cette phrase ) : ces salles
“A partir d'une certaine heure” > À
“ce qui est relativement peu vues toute les nuits d'infractions commises” > toutes. Et je crois qu'on met “vu”, mais je suis vraiment pas sûr.
“Ce bâtiment est le second rallongement qui part de la couronne des dortoirs !” > Si j'ai bien compris, c'est le premier.
“La difficulté lors d'opération dans ce secteur” > opérations, je crois
“ un babyfoot (où l'on sympathise avec les nouveaux venus comme le cousin de Jérémie (episode 88 “Cousins ennemis”) ou une table de ping-pong” > Autre parenthèse manquante
“A Kadic, c'est dans les cours de récréation” > À
“la cours est une scène” > un cours, une cour.
“on exclue celui à qui on fait la tête” > exclut
“les parents d'élèves ne font pas exceptions (JT dans l'” > exception + “Image” pour indiquer l'épisode 45…quelque chose déconne on dirait)
“que se tient la distribution de courrier (episode 84 “Missile guidé” ou certaines annonces (agression d'un professeur” > fermeture de parenthèse avant le “ou”
Translator's Notes
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“pourquoi voir le malheur partout ?” > “always look on the bright side of life”: the French sentence is not a reference to anything, but I wanted to have fun
“XANA y envoie ses Kankrelats pour cueillir les héros” > “XANA sends there its Kankrelats to pick up our heroes” not sure about the term “pick up”
“En l'an de disgrâce 1905” > Damn you, Shaka, another pun coming straight from Hell! >.< It should be “En l'an de grâce 1905” (“grâce” is the Lord's mercy/grace/blessing/whatever), an equivalent, as it seems, of “in the year of our Lord XXXX). Of course, the distortion comes with a comical effect. Tried to preserve it as an “unlordly year of our Lord”
All the stuff about “couronnes” and “rallongements”, C-shaped, E-shaped, €-shaped…damn, it felt useless
“all that we refer to as paperworks” > a better translation would preserve the informal character of the word “paperasse” : “informally refer to as ******”
“ Si une envie de café vous prend” > “So, if you suddenly desire to drink a black coffee”: sorry, in this forum, coffee has to be black :3
“La vie s'écoule comme dans tout “bahut”.” > “bahut” is a familiar term for “school” I know no equivalent of.
“friendship weaved and unweaved” > “Détisser” doesn't exist either in French. (About the passage…Shaka has a sort of a lyrical tone there, but maybe I got carried away).
“the xanafied Principal comes and requisitions Aelita” > doesn't sound natural in French either.
Plus one URL
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Source of inspiration: already done by aqof Presentation: already done by aqof. Just noticed an error in the URL to the Kadic album (it is not valid). The Gate: already done by aqof The park
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The park of Kadic Academy is a much denser topic than the gate – so dense that, in some places, it almost looks like a little wood. It spreads on the whole weight of the school, separating the entrance gate from the buildings and the sports fields. It is somewhat like a buffer zone that separated the bystanders from all the paranormal activities that are going on in the school. Thus, in episode 40 “Attack of the Zombies”, the policemen who were called by William do not see what is happening in the lunchrooms, and simply leave.
Even though the park is huge, this is far from purely meaning bad news for our heroes. Whenever the objective of XANA's attack is to keep our heroes prisoner of the school, the program has to watch the whole perimeter of the park, and our heroes always manage to find a way to slip through the net. For example, we can remind episode 40 “Attack of the Zombies”, when an army of xana-zombified people wander around in the park, and yet does not prevent Yumi from joining with Aelita and Jeremy, who can then go to the factory.
The park is always closely monitored by the program because it is where is located the manhole cover under which there is a ladder that leads to the secret passage to the factory.
Sometimes, the park directly provides XANA with attack material, like hornets (episode 12 “Swarming Attack”) or roots of the tree, that can imprison the heroes (episode 61 “Sabotage”).
In other cases, XANA sends its forces directly on the site, for example a Krab (episode 39 “A Bad Turn”).
When no war is going on, the park is a very quiet place, ideal to rest if you have a one-hour gap in you schedule. Our heroes do not go there that much during their breaks and rather stick to the quadrangles, which is a shame because it is always nice to see some green area.
To conclude, let us mention the the gardener's shed where tools are stored…tools that our heroes sometimes need to use during their war against XANA. A Kankrelat, savagely slaughtered by Ulrich and Yumi in episode 26 “False Start”, could bear witness…or not.
Usually, this storehouse is a restricted area in which students are not allowed, as Jim reminds it to Milly. This does not hold Yumi from taking refuge from xanafied crows in episode 58 “The Pretender”. Odd and Sissi, chased by the whole xanafied school, try to hide there before the main user of the tool shed: Mr Rouiller (episode 91 “Bad Connection”).
This being said, always look on the bright side of life! The park is a pretty beautiful place if you want to get some training (episode 64 “Final Round”), start a sibling war (episode 77 “Lost At Sea”) or even…flirt with you date? (episode 85 “Kadic Bombshell”).
It is even the ideal place to conclude a series of 97 episodes, by putting back in place a well-known manhole cover and getting you sports teacher to say his mythical catch-phrase (episode 95 “Echoes”).
The sports fields
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Located further away from the gate, surrounded by the park, the science building and the gymnasium, the sports fields of Kadic are quite vast and allow our heroes to practice all kind of outdoor sports such as discus (episode 63 “Triple Trouble”) or javelin (episode 67 “Double Take”) throw, football and races of many kinds (500 metres, endurance, and such)…It seems the sports complex is quite developed since it can greet football competitions between several schools, like in episode 21 “Zero Gravity Zone”!
The sports fields are also the settings in which Jim tortures his stu…gives his sports lessons. Those always start with long, pitiful speeches about the origins, the uses, the history and ancient philosophy of the sports he teaches, absolutely well-founded on conscientious quotations.
Unfortunately, the poor monitor often gets mixed up in this own explanations; however, once the practice part of the class has begun, there is no more dilly-dallying!You would better be good and run fast, because if you do not, Jim's cutting comments such as “Hopeless” conclude your performance…
An undeniable advantage of sports lessons, compared to other classes, is that since the heroes are near the park and the secret passages that lead to the factory, they can easily sneak out of Jim's reach in case of emergency!
In episode 67 “Double Take”, our heroes had to stay there and watch closely Jeremy's clone while XANA's influence was causing it to be rather unstable…
The gymnasium
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The gymnasium is located at the South of the sport fields, at the end ot the southern wing of Kadic. According to the Principal, it undergoes renovation works in episode 6 “Cruel Dilemma”. Inside, all sorts of indoors sports are practiced, such as basketball, climbing (episode 44 “Vertigo”) or, why not, handball and so on…In “XANA Awakens”, we also learn that this is the place where Jim manages his martial arts club.
It is rare that the place is locked, so it is easy for students to go there and train, like Ulrich in episode 35 “The Chips Are Down” or Yumi in episode 58 “The Pretender”. The locker rooms are also located in the gymnasium.
Another capital function of the gymnasium is to be used for festivities in Kadic, or as a multipurpose room broadly speaking. We can remember the robot competition in episode 20 “The Robots”, or also parties like in episode 33 “Final Mix”, or auditions to find new talents (episode 68 “Opening Act”).
In episode 65 “Final Round”, the gymnasium even hosts a skateboard turnament.
Jim also uses the gymnasium for his own benefice in order to punish Odd from roadcasting the picture from Paco the King of Disco in episode 66 “William Returns”. The episode ends on a disco concert.
XANA never gets really interested in the gymnasium itself ; however, since our heroes spend a lot of time there, it often has to go and get them there. Generally, strong-arms tactics prove to be efficient, be it with a nine-feet tall robot (episode 20 “The Robots”) or with an army of mechanical dogs (episode 86 “Canine Conundrum”)…In other cases, the attacks are more focused on one hero: for example, a giant ball of electricity getting out of the electrical network (The Prologue) or quite violent crows destroying a glass pane to reach and lash out at Yumi (episode 58 “The Pretender”)!
We must also remind the mysterious “attack of the gymnasium”, mentioned in episode 72 “Crash Course”…so, what really happened between Jeremy and Aelita?
The science building
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The science building is not part of the € symbol formed by the other buildings. It overlooks the sports fields and there are several floors, even though Ms Hertz is the only known science teacher at Kadic…Throughout the classes, one can stumble across everything that is necessary to teach biology, physics or chemistry. The series only shows a few test tubes, chemical products and electric circuits, but surely the stock ought to be more important that that.
It is also in the science building that the computer room is to be seen, in episode 23 “Rock Bottom?”, during which Samantha tries to steal a laptop.
Since they contain chemical products, laboratories are often attacked by XANA: the most striking example is episode 15 “Laughing Fit”, in which XANA take control of the content of two bottles of laughing gas.
To the heroes, the laboratory is associated with pretty bad memories…twice, they were forced to send someone to a rescue mission, to save Ms Hertz in episode 21 “Zero Gravity Zone” and that of Samantha in episode 23 “Rock Bottom?”! We can also add that in episode 26 “False Start”, XANA sends there its Kankrelats to pick up our heroes.
The boiler room
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The boiler room is located beside the gymnasium. Usually, this room is not visited by many students in normal schools. But Kadic is not a normal school.
The first thing you need to know about the boiler room is that it is one of the two accesses to the secret passage to the sewers and the factory. You can enter those trough a door that is not locked, and by the way, it is really surprising that nor the Principal nor Jim ever wondered what was behind that door!
However, opening a door is not, by far, the most impressive event that takes place in the boiler room. In episode 45, all the students gather there to take shelter from the incredibly arctic temperature brought by XANA's attack. In episode 30 “A Great Day”, it even becomes a boxing ring where Ulrich has to fight a xanafied Sissi, which will wreck pretty much everything in the room. Since some pipes are damaged, the room is filled up with smoke. It is also by destroying those pipes that Aelita gets the Principal and Jim to run away from the room, which allows Jeremy to head for the factory in episode 24 “Ghost Channel”!
Frequently, to block the access to the secret passage and the factory, XANA blocks the way to the boiler room. This happens in episode 10 “The Girl of the Dreams with the armor, and also in episode 86 with Kiwi2s.
The violent battle against XANA is not the only thing that can transform the boiler room: Sissi's stupidity is also pretty efficient, when it comes to that. In episode 48, the room goes through an extreme makeover and it is turned into a perfect set for a séance: candles, pentagrams on the floor, somewhat gullible followers and a real specter for the touch of realism!
A séance, how comes? you might ask. Quite simply because of some old rumor that has been around concerning Kadic and its boiler room. Do you want me to tell it to you?…
In the unlordly year of our Lord 1905, while Kadic was still being built, it is told that Leon Courbet, building worker, was immured alive in the boiler room and that thereon his ghost has been haunting the place and terrifying the children…
The classrooms
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This is the most important part of Kadic Academy: the big building of classrooms and dormitories are, from an aerial point of view, approximately shaped like a C, with two little horizontal bars that roughly turn it into a euro symbol: €
Since the classrooms are only located in the encircling perimeter and in one of the bars, the shape is basically that of an E.
The classrooms are as generic as you can get, with blackboards, old-fashioned chalk sticks, teacher's desk and desks for students, that are invariably shared into rows of two.
Those classrooms are used to teach all the disciplines except sports and sciences.
When they are not on Lyoko, it is where our heroes spend most of their time, locked up with teachers who try to fill their heads with lessons and exercices.
But as soon as the Superscan's alarm rings, you need to find a good excuse to leave the room…Headache, bathrooms, anything goes as long as it sounds convincing enough for the teacher (or does not let him enough time to think of an appropriate reaction).
It is even easier when the whole school is concerned by XANA's attack: then, our 5 heroes have no difficulty to weave in and out between panicked students and teachers who are overtaken by the events.
The dormitories
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The dormitories were built exactly above the classrooms. After a determined hour, students must go there and leaving them is forbidden and punishable by exclusion. Indeed, night trips may be sanctioned with serious sentences at Kadic. Very luckily for them, our heroes will have only once occasion to experiment it, which is pretty little compared to all the night infractions they perpetrated. In episode 70 “Skidbladnir”, Aelita is surprised by Jim in Jeremy's room. 4 hours of detention.
So, those long corridors occupy the second and third floor of Kadic. To make a long story short, who could refuse one of good old Jim's tirades?
“May I remind you that in the evening, girls and boys are prohibited from straying for their respective floors. Ok, for any of you who might be thinking of trying to pull anything, remember that the floors are different from each other in that they are either upstairs from or downstairs from the one…above!
Girls are upstairs, and boys downstairs! Comings and goings from upstairs to downstairs and from downstairs to upstairs are strictly forbidden. And if I ever catch anyone from downstairs upstairs or anyone going from upstairs to downstairs, he or she’s really going to regret it stairs!”
Let us juste note that this golden rule shouted by the drill sergeant GI-Jim is not that golden in every episode. Sometimes, Aelita's room is seen to be at the same floor as Jeremy's; in episode 22 “Routine”, Ulrich and Emily shouldn't have come across each other either.
In Kadic's long corridors, extraordinary amounts of doors line up, leading to rooms of a more or less equal surface area. We can see that students are either alone in their room (like Jeremy, Sissi or Aelita), or either two (like Ulrich and Odd, but also Milly and Tamiya).
Inside the rooms, a lot of things are allowed (Walkmans, MP3, posters, computers connected to Internet); each student can decorate his room according to his own tastes. Sissi's room, for example, reflects her character quite well: a mirror, pictures of stars, lots of clothing, make-up and beauty culture eveywhere! Jerey's, on the other hand, is equipped with all sorts of computing paraphernalia, stuff to build little robots himself – not to mention Einstein's famous picture, a classic!
The room of Ulrich and Odd is simpler. A simple table to work and personal belongings in the closet.
Jim also has a room of his own, amongst the students', and one can mainly see there sports equipment and athlete posters…or even a few compromising pictures from the past of our favorite monitor!
Each floor has its own shared bath with several shower units, great sinks that students use every morning and every night. Generally speaking, nothing really breath-taking or even interesting ever happens here, except when Aelita has got hallucinations or when Sissi sends her to the boys' bathroom.
Same thing goes for the dormitories: not a lot of action. Most of the time, Jeremy warns our heroes that XANA is on the move and they leave the dormitories before they have the time to notice anything. However, when those attacks happen at night as in episode 48 “Is There Anybody Out There?”, or when they are not expected like in episode 10 “The Girl of the Dreams”, a xanafied armor or an insensitive specter might be running in the corridors…
The students are allowed to stay in their room when they are sick, but apart from that, staying in the dormitories between 8 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. is strictly forbidden, because students are supposed to be in classes or studying. Of course, Jim sees that the rules are respected.
The dormitories themselves were once the main objective of one of XANA's attacks against the school, when it tried to make it collapse creating ultrasounds (episode 13 “Just in Time”).
The recreational room
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This place is a new area, that opens its doors for the first time only in episode 69 “Wreck Room”. The Principal gives it to the students on the one condition that they look after it. To the great displeasure of our heroes, William's clone is elected to be responsible of the room, and it turns out that indeed, it is not able to handle it correctly, due to its far too basic intellectual abilities. After a return to the past, our heroes see that the post is ensured to Sissi.
The recreational room contains a lot of different stuff for students to spend their spare time: a TV (the fight for the remote control is often pretty intense), a football table (useful when you want to make friends with a newcomer, like Jeremy's cousin (episode 88 “Cousins Once Removed”) and a ping-pong table where Jim, the “Killer Racquet”, can challenge students.
Like many other places in Kadic, the recreational room soon becomes a place where students gather and talk. Our heroes, however, avoid to mention XANA because of the people around, which does not prevent them from spending some time together around the football table.
There is one of XANA's attacks that starts there: in episode 69, it takes control of William's clone and use it to fight our heroes.
The administrative building
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It's all in the name! This building is located at the end of the northern bar of the euro symbol drawn by the dormitories.
Inside there are stored the students' and teachers' files,the entry or expulsion forms, in a word: all that we refer to as paperworks...Important rooms include the teacher lounge, the secretariat, the office of Nicole Weber and the Principal's.
It is in the latest room that important events mostly happen, but ending up there is not a good sign. It is also where Mr Delmas work, spends some time daydreaming in front of his daughter's picture, gives hours of detention and plays some mysterious penguin game (episode 67 “Double Take”).
The teacher's lounge is not far away. There also is a room where a bunch of files are stored, in which Jeremy found the records about Franz Hopper. What makes it difficult to operate in this sector is that children are not allowed to stay there.
The infirmary
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Yolanda Perraudin constantly sees that hurt or sick student are well treated. Even for the slightest problem, the nurse can provide you with a solution. All patients have to do is to lie down on a bed of the infirmary and wait for the cure. Yolande is even able to treat sprains and allowed to draw up a medical check-up, which shows that she is quite skilled.
When Yolanda finds herself helpless in front of an injury or a condition, it often means that our heroes' enemy has something to do with it (for instance, Odd's condition in episode 18 “Killer Music” or Jeremy's in episode 38 “Temptation”). Those cases are rare, but the result is always the same: after observing very carefully and anxiously the patient's condition, Yolanda, panicky, turns to the Principal and asks him to call the hospital!
The fact that, during the war against XANA, the infirmary is held by a skilled person is a reassuring fact for our heroes, and also important for the victims of those attacks.
Electrocution, headache, stomachache, sudden weakness or fit of insanity: everything is dealt with at the infirmary…as well, of course, as typical high-school problems such as sweating or acne.
The quadrangles
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There are two quadrangles, delimited by the classrooms and the administrative building. The Northern one is the one in which you can find the students' toilets but, above all, the well-known vending machine that Odd and Nicolas find far too often out-of-order. So if you suddenly desire to drink a black coffee, put in the change and pray that the drink is poured into a cup, or even poured at all (unlike what happens in episode 63 “Triple Trouble”)!
The Southern one is where the two lunchrooms are located: therefore, you can't avoid setting foot in it if you want to get something in your stomach.
At Kadic Academy, quadrangles are the place where, by the strew benches and under the foliage of scattered threes, you will see seasons pass and time and life flow alike. As it is in any school and for any student, here and for our heroes, quadrangles are a theater, and they are the actors.
Love stories, Valentine's Day jealousies, chats and comments about classes, teachers, tests to come and academic results…In quadrangles, couples are born and broken, friendships weaved and unweaved, people kiss, hug and sulk and Kadic's News are never far…
Quadrangles are surrounded by archways under which you can seek shelter if it is raining.
For our heroes, quadrangles are not just a stage before reaching the factory. It is where they gather to quickly review the situation and entrust each other with different tasks when XANA attacks. Even though they never linger there more than necessary, what they do and decide there is capital for the episode. Yet, as for XANA's attack, they rarely start there and never stay there for long. Consequently, the two quadrangles are most of the time used as a transition between the place where the attack began (dormitory, infirmary, classroom) and the secret passages. For example, let us remind the chase between Ulrich and William in episode 69 “Wreck Room”.
The lunchrooms
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As we previously explained, there are actually two of those, located in the southern quadrangle, and set to be parallel to each other. Those are perfectly ordinary self-service restaurants where students help themselves with entrance, desert and cheese before Rosa gives them their share of the main menu.
Strangely, the service is always ensures by Rosa, wich makes us wonder how she can always be in the two lunchrooms at the same time! Or, maybe, our heroes always eat in the same lunchroom – does it depend on the class?
All the students have lunch at the restaurant, but only boarders have breakfasts and dinners at the academy.
The lunchroom is a place where Kadic's students meet, talk and life. Friends gather to eat, so not being welcomed when sitting at a table is a clear sign that you are on bad terms with a group (poor William in episode 94 “Fight to the Finish”)...In short, a typical high-school place under the supervision of Rosa and our irreplaceable Jim.
About Jim, he does not hesitate to impose his presence at a student's table, just to make sure that he will be on time to begin his detention (episode 70 “Skidbladnir”).
The adults also eat in the restaurant, without their private table, like in other schools. Even parents or guests are not an exception (be it JT in episode 45 “Cold War” or William's parents in episode 93 “Down To Earth”).
Let us also point out that the restaurant is where the mail is distributed (episode 84 “Guided Missile”) and that announcements are made (like the assault of a teacher in episode 10 “The Girl of the Dreams” or the fire drill in episode 71 “Maiden Voyage”).
The library is located at the Northern part of the academy, near the surrounding walls…This building, isolated from the others, is where students go make their researches during the gaps in their schedule. It might look a little odd, but there is no known librarian: it is as if the books were just let there for the students to pick them up!
In this place, there is but one golden rule: absolute, permanent silence. Of course, whose role is it to see that it is respected? Dear, omnipresent Jim, there you are! Our monitor hunts down throughout the shelves any student who dares to whisper or do anything else than his homeworks.
The only advantage is that if XANA attack, all you have to do to get thrown out of the place and rush to the factory is standing up and shouting (episode 57 “Aelita”).
The library also seems to fulfill another function: that is, detention room. When a student has been misbehaving or shown disrespectful, he often gets to do a one-way trip to the library, like William in episode 59 “The Secret” and episode 39 “A Bad Turn” with Ulrich, or Aelita and Jeremy in episode 70 “Skidbladnir”, in which we see an easily-tricked Jim. Indeed, it seems that all you need to turn our zealous monitor into a fat lazybones is a Sumo magazine.
In episode 90 “Wrong Exposure”, it is the whole band that gets locked up while the Principal investigates a shady case about Franz Hopper. That is, until the xanafied Principal comes and requisitions Aelita, so that her four comrades have to bring him down in order to leave the room.
The school attic and roofs: already done by aqof
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